Surgical treatment of cryptogenic neocortical epilepsy is challenging. The aim of this study
was to evaluate surgical outcomes and to identify possible prognostic factors including the …

Calcium signaling is important in many signaling processes in cancer cell proliferation and
motility including in deadly glioblastomas of the brain that aggressively invade neighboring …

Purpose: Determining long‐term prognostic factors of surgery for mesial temporal lobe
epilepsy (MTLE) is important for identifying ideal candidates and predicting the prognosis for …

The goal of treatment for spinal ependymoma is complete removal with minimal postoperative
neurological deficit. The authors correlated the results of surgical management for spinal …

Objective Use of quantitative computed tomography (CT) to evaluate bone mineral density
was suggested in the 1970s. Despite its reliability and accuracy, technical shortcomings …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study using national health insurance data. Objective. To
provide a longitudinal reoperation rate after surgery for lumbar herniated intervertebral disc …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR imaging, PET, and ictal SPECT have been studied
extensively as individual techniques in the localization of epileptogenic foci, but only a few …

The sensitivity of 18 F-FDG PET to localize epileptogenic zones in frontal lobe epilepsy was
evaluated by both visual assessment and statistical parametric mapping (SPM). Methods: …

Although schizophrenia is characterized by gray matter (GM) abnormalities, particularly in
the prefrontal and temporal cortices, it is unclear whether cerebral cortical GM is abnormal in …

Background and Objective Epilepsy is the second most common disease of the brain.
Epilepsy makes it difficult for patients to live a normal life because it is difficult to predict when …